English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 5

They lived happily together, but, though he wished people to think otherwise, he was fonder of the golden arm than of all his wife's gifts besides.

Who acts: They, man, wife · What happens: live, wish, think, be, beside, gift · To what, where: people

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, man, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fonder	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fonder	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 wished	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fonder	advcl
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wished	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	xcomp
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	13 think	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wished	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fonder	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fonder	cop
18	fonder	fond	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 lived	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 arm	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 arm	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 arm	amod
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fonder	obl
23	than	than	ADP	_	29 gifts	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 gifts	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 wife	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gifts	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 wife	case
29	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 besides	obl
30	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fonder	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	They		happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	past	man	people		tree rules
3	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here		otherwise property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	man		of the golden arm; fond property	tree rules
5	beside	present			than man's wife's gifts	tree rules
6	gift		man's wife			nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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